HRS Quality Reporting Alert: CMS Suspends Certain MIPS Improvement Activities for CY 2025

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will be suspending eight Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) improvement activities for the 2025 performance year. The list of suspended improvement activities includes:

1. MIPS Eligible Clinician Leadership in Clinical Trials or CBPR (IA_AHE_5)
2. Create and Implement an Anti-Racism Plan (IA_AHE_8)
3. Implement Food Insecurity and Nutrition Risk Identification and Treatment Protocols (IA_AHE_9)
4. Create and Implement a Plan to Improve Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Patients (IA_AHE_11)
5. Practice Improvements that Engage Community Resources to Address Drivers of Health (IA_AHE_12)
6. Use of Toolsets or Other Resources to Close Health and Health Care Inequities Across Communities (IA_PM_6)
7. COVID-19 Clinical Data Reporting with or without Clinical Trial (IA_ERP_3)
8. Vaccine Achievement for Practice Staff: COVID-19, Influenza, and Hepatitis B (IA_PM_26)

CMS encourages clinicians to select other improvement activities. However, clinicians can still attest and receive credit for these activities if they have already completed the activities or are in the process of completing them. CMS plans to propose removal of these activities in future rulemaking and is in the process of updating related resources.

Additional information on the 2025 MIPS Improvement Activities is available on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website.